Archive for the Stuff category

Happy Independents Day

Today is the 4th of July the day when America’s celebrate that day back in 1776 when the founding fathers told old King George where he could stick it, and so the United States of America was born.
Unfortunately because of the resent wildfires most all most all cities have either canceled or postponed the [...]

Year Half Done

Well with the year half over it’s time to look back and see how I’m doing on the New Year’s Resolutions.
1. A daily post on the blog. On the downside I missed a day early in the year cause a power outage and a couple of days when I went to Sukuracon. On the upside [...]

The Girls Get a New Home

Well after watching Wall-E Monday I headed to the Home Improvement store and picked up a few shelves for the figure collection. Up until now the girls have been sitting here and there, mostly taking up all the space on the workbench desk. I still need to do the photo shoot of Louise as I [...]

Wildfire Update

There are still 27 wildfire areas in California, down from a high of 34. The good news is that the smoke dome that we have been living under for most of last week got cleared out over the weekend. Due to a slight breeze out of the south for most of Saturday and Sunday. Luckily [...]

Jackie Chan Tea Will Kick You in the Taste Buds

What does The Geek do when his brain wont come up with some thing to write about. Well either I do a Random Web Link Friday® or I do something like blog about food.
So on tonight’s post we have Jackie Chan’s XtraGreen Green Tea (’cause you know that spelling extra with an ‘X’ makes [...]

Hobby Wave’s Space Yoko

Coming out in October from Hobby Wave is that most bodacious of babes from Gurren Lagann Yoko. Wave’s Yoko is from the later part of the series and is billed as Space Ver. Yoko. She bends forwards in at 17cm tall 1/8 scale and with retail price of 5,800 yen. There is also a special [...]

New Photo Booth Setup

Spent a little time tonight working on the set up for then new photo booth set up. Will try and get some photos taken tomorrow night for weekend posting. Trying to remember where I got the the layout for this setup from. Found the link Happy Soda gives a good explanation of the [...]

Disposable DVDs

Sunday night when I watched Cloverfield it wasn’t a movie I rented from Blockbuster or Netflix. It was on DVD that I picked up at work as a No-Return Rental. The disc is made by a company called FlexPlay.

More Wildfires

Well over the weekend most of California had a nice little thunder and lighting storm. Which being Summertime in California set off a whole bunch of wildfires. At one point there was something like 600 lighting started fires. Most of which were just small brush fires and were quickly contained. As of 0800 this morning [...]

The Telectroscope

I came across this yesterday in my ramblings along the internet. The Telectroscope is one part modern art, one part interactive television, two parts retrofuture and all cool. Based off an idea from the turn of the last century but made possible by modern technology. The Telectroscope visual links New York and London over a [...]

HLJ Box

Well came home today and for the first time in a long time had a box form HLJ sitting on the table. What’s in it you ask well you’ll see after the cut.

Firefox Download Day

Well for those how haven’t been paying attention, today Mozilla released FireFox version 3. As part of the release of the new version they are trying to break the record for total number of copies downloaded in a single day. For your download to count you must get it by 11:16 PDT or 18:16 UTC [...]